washing machine
<storage>
An old-style 14-inch hard disk in a floor-standing cabinet. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the "top-loading" access to the media packs - and, of course, they were always set on "spin cycle". The thick channel cables connecting these were called "bit hoses". The washing-machine idiom transcends language barriers; it is even used in Russian hacker jargon.
See also walking drives.Last updated: 1995-02-15
Nearby terms:
Warm Silence Software ♦ Warp ♦ wart ♦ washing machine ♦ Wasserman ♦ WATBOL ♦ Watcom C/C++
Try this search on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google, OneLook.
Loading
